The Concerto, BWV 525a (alternatively: BWV

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's first Organ Sonata, BWV 525 (outer

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s), and Flute Sonata in A major, BWV 1032 (middle movement). The oldest extant manuscript containing the BWV 525a arrangement, D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 345, is dated to the middle of the 18th century. Although this version of Bach's sonata movements may have originated during his lifetime in the circle around him, it seems unlikely that the composer supervised, or even ordered, the manufacture of the string trio adaptation, thus the arrangement has been listed in BWV Anh. II, that is the (Anh.) of doubtful works, in the 1998 edition of the (BWV).

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published BWV 525a in 1965. Digital facsimiles of 18th- and 19th-century manuscript copies of the arrangement, in which the sonata is titled "Concerto", became available in the 21st century.

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* Bach: spurious and doubtful works Arrangements of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach Trio sonatas Compositions for string trio Compositions in C major {{concerto-stub